Alexa Web Search Platform
Alexa Web Search Platform Wow. I was checking out the Amazon web services homepage for some affiliate stuff and noticed there were some new Alexa...
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Michael Nguyen blogs regularly at Social Patterns and is a search engine optimization expert for SEO Inc, a full-service search engine optimization firm.
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MSN’s Google PageRank of 2 and Canonical URL Problems
MSN’s Google PageRank of 2 and Canonical URL Problems MSN’s homepage – www.msn.com is now showing a Google toolbar PageRank of 2. This is another...
Yahoo’s Index Claim Suspicious According To Study
Yahoo’s Index Claim Suspicious According To Study Matthew Cheney, Mike Perry, and Dr. Orville Vernon Burton of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications have compared...
Google Loses Trademark Case Versus Geico
Google Loses Trademark Case Versus Geico A US district court judge has ruled against Google and found that there was infringement where the terms “Geico”...
Google And Apple iTunes Together?
Google And Apple iTunes Together? Google may soon be offering Apple iTunes through the Google site. Are we seeing the first of many uses of...
Yahoo Publisher Network Invite Only Beta
Yahoo Publisher Network Invite Only Beta Yahoo is finally releasing it’s AdSense competitor – Yahoo Publisher Network. Yahoo has had a while to take a...
Google Improves AdWords System
Google Improves AdWords System Google recently introduced two new changes to their AdWords system. (via Inside Adwords) Both these changes will help advertisers improve their...
Inside Google Firefox Extensions
Inside Google Firefox Extensions With the release of several Firefox extensions by Google – we can take a look at how Google officially implements PageRank...
Yahoo Quietly Launches Jobs Search Engine
Yahoo Quietly Launches Jobs Search Engine Looks like Yahoo has been working under the radar on a jobs search engine. (via Joel Cheesman) In addition...
Official Google Toolbar Finally Coming to Firefox
Official Google Toolbar Finally Coming to Firefox The official Google Toolbar is finally coming to Firefox (my browser of choice) around July 7th : Hey...
Google Planning Pay-Per-Sale Advertising Model?
Google Planning Pay-Per-Sale Advertising Model? Here’s what I think Google is building – A pay-per-sale advertising model. CEO Eric Schmidt has already spoken out and...
Technorati, Google, Yahoo, Blogs and Accusations of Inflated Results
Technorati, Google, Yahoo, Blogs and Accusations of Inflated Results David Sifry, CEO of Technorati, is calling out Google and Yahoo to explain why their reported...
Google Introduces Site Targeting to Google AdWords
Google Introduces Site Targeting to Google AdWords Google just introduced Site Targeting for their AdWords program. Advertisers can now target their ads specifically for a...
Technorati Launches Redesign Beta
Technorati Launches Redesign Beta Yesterday, Dave Sifry announced the public beta of Technorati’s redesign. I like the new features, but prefer the old design. Technorati...
Search Engine Study : Titles Determine Links as Not Relevant
Search Engine Study : Titles Determine Links as Not Relevant Over at Search Engine Watch, Gary Price points out a paper about consumer bias against...
Yahoo Auctions Eliminates Listing and Selling Fees
Yahoo Auctions Eliminates Listing and Selling Fees In an effort to grab some marketshare from Ebay, Yahoo has just announced that it is eliminating both...
Secret Google Evaluation Lab
Secret Google Evaluation Lab Although it’s been speculated that Google is manually spot checking some of its rankings, this is the first time we’ve seen...
Google and Microsoft View Each Other Differently
Google and Microsoft View Each Other Differently Despite recent search developments and a respectable third-place market market share, Microsoft is still not a competitor in...
Exalead Combines Search Features
Exalead Combines Search Features Found a link to Exalead through Seth Godin’s site. Although Exalead’s results are not as relevant as the top search engines,...
Yahoo Announces Media RSS 1.0
Yahoo Announces Media RSS 1.0 Back in December 2004, Yahoo first announced Media RSS in conjunction with their Video Search. Last week they announced the...